Sat, Jan 14, 1978
Barry Norman presents a New Year round-up of news, reviews and interviews. International Velvet: Child star Tatum O'Neal and director Bryan Forbes talk about the sequel to the 1944 MGM classic, National Velvet, which they are making at Pinewood Studios. The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training: The famous kids' baseball team goes to Texas and recruits William Devane as coach for a big game. The Glenn Miller Story: James Stewart and June Allyson star in the 1954 biography of the famous band leader which opens London's new Plaza 4 cinema, devoted to re-issues of famous Paramount movies.
Sat, Jan 28, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Julia: Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave star in Fred Zinnemann's new film based on the American writer Lillian Hellman 's memoirs. The Choirboys: Robert Aldrich directs the film version of Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling novel about a group of hard-drinking cops who patrol the streets of Los Angeles. The Class of Miss Macmichael: Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed on location in South London, talk about their third film together, a black comedy set in a school for maladjusted teenagers.
Sat, Feb 11, 1978
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Frankie Howerd, making his first film in Hollywood, talks about his unusual role in this pop/rock film. Candleshoe: Jodie Foster, David Niven and Helen Hayes star in the latest Disney suspense comedy set in England. International Velvet: child star Tatum O'Neal and director Bryan Forbes talk about the sequel to the 1944 MGM classic, National Velvet, which they are making at Pinewood Studios.
Sat, Feb 25, 1978
Silver Bears: Cybill Shepherd, Michael Caine and Stephane Audran star in director Ivan Passer's comedy involving a 'friendly' Swiss bank. The Four Feathers: Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward and Richard Johnson star in a remake of this classic romantic adventure. The Swarm: Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Michael Caine and producer-director Irwin Allen comment in Hollywood on their disaster movie about killer bees.
Sat, Mar 11, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Looking for Mr Goodbar: Diane Keaton stars as the good/ bad girl who teaches by day and cruises the singles bars by night. The Stud: Oliver Tobias as The Stud himself; actress Joan Collins and her writer sister Jackie Collins talk about the film they are making based on Jackie's best-selling novel. Swept Away: Giancarlo Giannini stars in Italian director Lina Wertmuller's film about a man and a woman cast away on an island.
Sat, Mar 25, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Goodbye Girl: Richard Dreyfuss is an aspiring actor and Marsha Mason an ex-chorus dancer in Neil Simon's latest comedy set in New York's theatreland. Saturday Night Fever: John Travolta, who has been hailed as America's latest sex symbol, plays a salesman who comes to life only on Saturdays at the local disco. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore comment on their latest film based on the famous Sherlock Holmes story, which is now being made at Bray Studios.
Sat, Apr 8, 1978
Telefon: Charles Bronson and Lee Remick star in Don Siegel's spy thriller about a KGB agent sent to America to find a demented Russian traitor. Roseland: director James Ivory's new film is set in New York's ornate dance-hall, Roseland, where Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Lou Jacobi and Christopher Walken live out their fantasies for a few hours a day. Jaws 2: Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary once again play husband and wife in the sequel to Jaws which they are making in Florida. Barbra Paskin talked to them about the problems of trying to repeat the success of the original.
Sat, Apr 22, 1978
A Film 78 special in which Barry Norman looks back over 50 years of science fiction films, including The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day the Earth Caught Fire and Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey. Film director Richard Fleischer explains why he directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Soylent Green. Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov talks about robots and androids.
Sat, May 6, 1978
To coincide with a season of Woody Allen films at the National Film Theatre, this Film 78 special, introduced by Barry Norman, presents an interview with the writer-actor-director Woody Allen, whose film Annie Hall won this year's major Oscars. Woody Allen talks, wittily and candidly, not only about his work in the cinema, but on subjects ranging from philosophy to phobias, from psychiatrists to sex. Allen: I've been going to an analyst for about 22 years now.' 'How's it going?' 'Slowly.' Plus extracts from his most successful films.
Sat, May 20, 1978
Barry Norman presents news and reviews from the movie world. High Anxiety: Mel Brook's comedy is a spoof tribute to Alfred Hitchcock starring of course, Mel Brooks with Madeleine Kahn. Coming Home: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight and Bruce Dern star in a love story set against the background of the war in Vietnam. The Betsy: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross are in Harold Robbins's best-seller about power struggles in the car industry. Gray Lady Down: a preview of Charlton Heston, David Carradine and Stacy Reach involved in the rescue of a nuclear submarine trapped 1,500ft beneath the ocean.
Sat, May 27, 1978
A Film 78 Special in which Barry Norman talks to 84-year-old journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns in Desert Hot Springs, California, about the personalities she has known - THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR; Western hero Wyatt Earp; pioneer director D.W. Griffith; silent screen stars RUDOLPH VALENTINO, MARY PICKFORD, JOHN GILBERT and TOM MIX; Hollywood stars GARY COOPER and JEAN HARLOW; Senator HUEY LONG and ex-President RICHARD NIXON.
Sat, Sep 16, 1978
Barry Norman returns with a fortnightly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie-world. Grease: John Travolta, in his first film since Saturday Night Fever, co-stars with Olivia Newton-John in a 1950s-style musical. The Wild Geese: Richard Burton talks about the filming in South Africa of this story about a group of mercenaries who attempt to rescue a deposed African President. Heaven Can Wait: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and James Mason star in a remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr Jordan, which tells of a young athlete called to Heaven before his time.
Sat, Sep 30, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. An Enemy of the People: Steve McQueen returns to the screen after a four-year break in a film version of Henrik Ibsen's play. The Legacy: American actress Katherine Ross stars in a thriller set in the English countryside. The Fury: Brian De Palma's new film about the supernatural features Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes in an elaborate game of mind control.
Sat, Oct 14, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. The Driver (1978): Ryan O'Neal plays a getaway driver and Bruce Dern the detective who sets out to trap him in writer/director Walter Hill's action adventure. Watership Down (1978): a behind-the-scenes look at the making in London of an animated film version of Richard Adams 's best-selling book. Girlfriends (1978): the first commercial feature film to be financed from American public funds was directed by a woman, Claudia Weill, and stars Melanie Mayron as a young Manhattan photographer.
Sat, Oct 28, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Death on the Nile (1978): Peter Ustinov is the new Hercule Poirot with Bette Davis, David Niven, Mia Farrow and Maggie Smith as co-stars in a film version of Agatha Christie 's famous thriller. The Greek Tycoon: Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Quinn star in a thinly-disguised film biography of Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis. The Thirty-nine Steps: actor Robert Powell , producer Greg Smith and director Don Sharp explain why they are re-making an already successful 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Sat, Nov 11, 1978
Barry Norman presents a round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the movie world. Hooper: Burt Reynolds, Jan-Michael Vincent and Brian Keith star in a story of three generations of Hollywood stuntmen. Stevie: Glenda Jackson re-creates her stage characterisation of the eccentric English poet Stevie Smith. Newsfront: Australian director Phillip Noyce's highly-acclaimed film about the life of a newsreel cameraman opens this year's London Film Festival.
Sat, Nov 25, 1978
Piranha: Bradford Dillman, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn and killer fish are the stars of Roger Corman's latest disaster movie. Black and White in Colour: an Oscar-winning French film tells how colonials in West Africa reacted when they heard about the outbreak of World War I - a year late. The Spaceman and King Arthur: Kenneth More plays King Arthur in the latest Disney film being made at Pinewood Studios.
Sat, Dec 9, 1978
Jaws 2: Roy Scheider as the island police chief once more fights the indifference of the mayor when another great white shark threatens. Every Which Way But Loose: Clint Eastwood in Texas talks about his change of role in this comedy adventure. Force 10 from Navarone: Alistair Maclean's sequel to The Guns of Navarone stars Robert Shaw. No Bed of Roses: Hollywood actress Joan Fontaine on her recently published autobiography. Watership Down: The soundtrack album features music by Mike Batt and Art Garfunkel.